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Arizona Right to Know Source of Campaign Contributions Initiative (2020)
| Arizona Right to Know Source of Campaign Contributions Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Campaign finance | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Right to Know Source of Campaign Contributions Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The ballot measure would have added language to the Arizona Constitution providing people with a right to know the identity of the original source of an aggregate contribution of $5,000 or more used for campaign media spending. The ballot measure would have empowered the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission to implement the constitutional amendment.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article 7, Arizona Constitution
The measure would have added a Section 19 to Article VII of the Arizona Constitution. The full constitutional changes are available here.
Sponsors
Outlaw Dirty Money led the campaign in support of the ballot initiative.[2]
Path to the ballot
Process in Arizona
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 15 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 356,467 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 2, 2020.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Stages of this initiative
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On March 26, 2019, former Attorney General Terry Goddard filed the ballot initiative.[1] On March 26, 2020, one year after the ballot initiative was filed, Goddard announced that the signature drive was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. He called on the Arizona State Legislature to allow for signatures to be gathered online. He said the issue was basic fairness because legislators authorized themselves to collect candidate nominating petitions online.[3]
To learn more about how the coronavirus pandemic impacted ballot measure campaigns, see the following: Changes to ballot measure campaigns, procedures, and policies in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020-2022
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Amendment
Footnotes
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